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‘Steven Universe' Will Return With a New Spinoff Sequel
5 years after it first came to an end, 'Steven Universe' is coming back–and heading to a few new places.
The world of Steven Universe is returning to animation. 5 years after we bid farewell to Steven, Connie, the Crystal Gems, and Beach City, Rebecca Sugar's animated saga is making a comeback… just not in the form you may have expected.
At Annecy today, Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network announced that a new series, Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars, is currently in development. Described only as a 'follow-up' to Steven Universe and its epilogue series Steven Universe Future, little details are currently known about Lars of the Stars, including who, if any, among the former Steven Universe cast and crew are returning for the series, other than the return of Sugar and long-time Steven Universe collaborator Ian Jones-Quartey as executive producers.
Instead of following Steven and Connie as they grow up and make a life for themselves away from Beach City, Lars of the Stars will go intergalactic, following the adventures of Lars Barriga, the former Beach City donut store employee who found himself transformed into a pink-hued, magical Human-Gem oddity after a brush with death (and Steven's healing powers). Taking on a ship of his own leading a crew of off-color Gems, Lars and his crew became revolutionary smugglers, as they rebelled against the grip of the tyrannical Gem homeworld and its rulers.
Now that the Diamonds and Earth are at peace though, we last saw Lars heading off for, well, the stars once more, at the climax of Future–to, as the press release provided by Warner Bros. states, 'smuggle contraband, evade the authorities, and uncover the darkest secrets of the fallen Gem Empire.'
One thing we do know however, is that Lars of the Stars will have a streaming home after the transformation of Cartoon Network and Warner Bros.' own streaming shakeups as of late: the series is being developed for Amazon's Prime Video.
We'll bring you more on Warner Bros.' plans for Lars of the Stars as and when we learn them.
